Hospitality, Gaming and Leisure

Savills Hospitality, Gaming and Leisure group has extensive experience across these highly specialized sectors and is led by senior personnel with both advisory and principal backgrounds. Combined with Savills deep proprietary relationships both domestically and abroad, the group's reach is unparalleled. Our capabilities and experience have covered all manner of strategic advisory services, mergers and acquisition transactions, and portfolio, brand and single-asset sales transactions, and have encompassed limited and full service hotels, resorts, gaming and timeshare properties. Additionally, Savills extensive experience with distressed asset and restructuring situations affords our clients the opportunity to work with a knowledgeable industry team in conjunction with the very specific expertise required in workout and distressed situations. 

Areas of Expertise

• Hotel & resort
• Gaming
• Ski
• Golf
• Timeshare

Services Offered

• Strategic advisory, buy-side and sell-side
• Strategic asset sales
• Restructuring
• Financing advisory
• Joint-ventures and recapitalizations/restructurings

• Valuation

Representative Transactions

Single asset / portfolio transactions:

• Hotel Del Coronado
• KSL Resorts (Grand Wailea, Arizona Biltmore, La Quinta Resort, Claremont Resort & Spa, Lake Lanier Resort)
• La Costa Resort & Spa
• Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel
• Host Hotels & Resorts (33 asset, $3.6 billion portfolio acquisition from Starwood Hotels)
• Embassy Suites Battery Park

Corporate / brand transactions:

• Hilton Hotels
• Amerisuites
• Baymont Inns & Suites
• Intrawest
• Ramada
• American Casino & Entertainment Properties
• Consolidated Resorts
• John Q. Hammons Hotels

Restructuring/Financing:

• Global Hyatt
• Strategic Hotels & Resorts
• Host Hotels & Resorts